A full-on sunset in Bermuda as seen from the Fairmont Hamilton Princess looking out towards Town Cut and Fairylands. The clouds start to form once the heat subsides and provide a beautiful canvas for the setting sun.

The Indian Seats is a local vantage point in Sawnee Montain Preserve, located in Cumming, GA. From this viewpoint you can see the tail end of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the beginning of the Appalachain Trail.
This HDR image is the cropped version of an eight picture panorama taken near sunset. The tail end of summer is on us and the next set of pictures from up here will hopefully catch Autumn is all it's glory.

Golden Gate MistRemember the Stephen King story where a mist rolls over a Maine town? Spooky stuff then ensues. I always get that same feeling when visiting San Francisco. I was heading up to Napa to visit a close friend, so started the journey before sunrise through San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge.
That week the marine layer was thick this morning, and the visibility was limited from the overlook. Crossing the bridge I kept imagining a monster, say Godzilla, suddenly appearing in front of me. Traffic was light heading off the bridge yet most people were still doing 20-25 MPH.
I made a wrong turn trying to get to the Pacific side overlooks and ended up as the base on Horseshoe Bay. From down below I could see the bridge extending across to the city. The rest of the bridge was lost in the fog but still lit by the glow of commuter’s headlights.
Beside a few fisherman and seagulls, it was a quiet, peaceful morning.

Turn up the contrast and saturation! Veins pulse through the various layers of sandstone. It is amazing the amount of layers and changes in mineral deposits you can see. And the changes from red to white to purple and so on. Only then to do realize you’re looking a one foot high sample of a sandstone dome that sits 400’ above the ground, which in turn is hundreds to thousands of feet still buried in the surrounding dirt.

A cross nestled in a small alcove of wind carved rock. The nearby logbook had an explanation from a fellow hiker who used to bring his dog up here. The dog passed and this is a small remembrance to him.

Switching back and forth through cuts on the eastern approach the Top of the World, the sun started to illuminate the formations higher up. While deep in shadow, the first full sunlight started to warm the rock.

Just beyond this natural arch is "Base Camp", which is one of the stopping points for bushwhacking hikes in the Valley of Fire. At one of the highest points, it is a good location for side hikes and photographic vistas from the old "Parking Lot" back to the White Domes.

A log book (volume 2) is located in an ammo box brought up by the illustrious Shube. That hike his wine bottles were carried by pack mules. If you make it up this way, sign in!

During the summer, this path at Ruby Falls will see hundreds of people a week on it. In Fall, once the leaves are on the ground, it is actually quite dangerous when the leaves get wet from the mist of the local falls.

Desert varnish is good for protecting sandstone from weathering. That is, until the weathering takes place from behind the varnish. These are a couple plates on an outcropping about 50 feet above the gully floor.

Although this is taken from the "regular" trail, there are some interesting side trips that can be taken where the red sandstone finally gives out to the silica (white) sandstone. A quick scramble up the left side (from this perspective) of the canyon takes you into secluded spaces, not more than a 1/4 mile where the majority of casual hikers stay on the regular trails.

The Georgia Guidestones are an American Stonehenge situated in a rural field at Northeast Georgia. Although they get a fair amount of interested visitors each year, it is more common to have sunrise all to yourself. Taken with a good amount of fog rolling off of the nearby river.

Hamilton Bermuda is like any other city where prosperous sections are intermingled with fallow areas—just at a much smaller scale. The Arcade was a set of retail shops, nestled between other mixed retail and commercial buildings. While its’ neighbors are still going strong, The Arcade has seen better days.

This is the main water feature of XL Capital, a major financial services company headquartered in Bermuda. The "whale tail" situated above the waterfall adds new meaning to the recent financial climate. "Fail whale tail".

Makers of the fine Black Seal Rum, Goslings is a household word for Bermudians wanting a "black and coke" or Dark and Stormy. This is their main store on Front Street, just in front of where the "Bird Cage" used to be located.